Berthe Morisot by Joséphine Bindé6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The Morisots were not only forbidden to work at the museum unchaperoned, but they were also totally barred from formal training. In 1857 Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the Louvre gallery where from 1858 they learned by copying paintings. Morisot and her sisters initially started taking lessons so that they could each make a drawing for their father for his birthday. It was commonplace for daughters of bourgeois families to receive art education, so Berthe and her sisters Yves and Edma were taught privately by Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard. The family moved to Paris in 1852, when Morisot was a child. She had two older sisters, Yves and Edma, plus a younger brother, Tiburce. ![]() ![]() Her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime. He also studied architecture at École des Beaux Arts. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the prefect of the department of Cher. Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. ![]()
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